Cold Process Soap on the left and Melt & Pour Soap on the right.
Melt & Pour Soap Notes:
I melted some Transparent Melt & Pour soap in a large glass beaker and then added some of the Blue Lip Balm Color to the melted soap. Considering my test with the Ruby Lip Balm Color and that it didn’t blend unless I used an immersion blender, I used an immersion blender at the very beginning of the test. I was extremely excited to discover the soap remained a bright vibrant blue.
Cold Process Soap Notes:
I added the Blue Lip Balm Color to the oils once they were melted and used an immersion blender to make sure there were no particles of color floating in the oils. At this point, the oils were a dark blue color, and then I added the lye mixture and used the immersion blender to mix. At first, the color started to turn a green color and then it changed to a murky brown color. The soap stayed at that murky brown color for a short time and I was so sad, but as soon as I had come to terms with the soap being brown, it changed color again to a burnt orange! The soap stayed at the burnt orange color until the soap had hit trace. I poured it into the mold and then allowed the soap to rest for 24 hours. Imagine my surprise when I came back after 24 hours to discover that the soap had turned a lovely purple! Wouldn’t you agree?
8 ounces weight Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
4 ounces weight Coconut Oil
4 ounces weight Olive Oil
2.2 ounces Sodium Hydroxide
6 fluid ounces cool water
Weighing time: 8 minutes
Adding lye to water: 5 seconds, followed by 60 seconds of stirring
Heating of oils time: 2 minutes
Adding color to melted oils: 1 minute
Pouring lye solution into the fat mixture: 5 seconds
Using immersion blender to mix soap solution: 90 seconds
Pour into mold: 10 seconds
Allow soap to rest: 24 hours
Wow! Those are nice colored soaps! I am always curious what I can add to my cold process soap, so it is nice to see the result of particular products. What color do to a cold process soap is not always obvious. Thanks for sharing.
I was wondering how much colored oil do you use to color the cold process soap (i.e., color to oil weight ratio)?
Julie ^_^
The blue on that melt-and-pour is just _gorgeous_.
The blue is so amazing when you can hold the bar up to light!
Julie,
I used about 4 drops of color from the profession size bottle. It has a tip that allows drops of color. You can use less color, I was testing with a dark starting color.